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- Aug 5, 2020
Alcohol acts on your GABA receptors, which, as far as modern neuroscience understands, is used to inhibit signals in your brain, this is why alcohol and other GABA-interacting drugs like Xanax will make you calmer, because they literally make your brain less active.I'd seen people talking about it here, but how bad is alcohol withdrawal? I thought people were just using euphemisms for "it's pretty painful", but is it life-threatening or something? I've never really been around heavy drinking.
But your brain adapts over time when you take substances (take caffeine for example), so, your brain adjusts over time to be less and less GABA sensitive, requiring more and more alcohol for the same high, until you pass the treshold of your brain being so GABA insensitive that, without alcohol to boost the signal, your brain's basically melting itself with how strong the signals are.